Genève

Contre GlobalGrain et l'accaparement des terres agricoles

GlobalGrain, la grand’ messe des entreprises du commerce des aliments agricoles, se déroule à Genève à l’Hôtel Intercontinental. Nous serons présent·e·s pour dénoncer cette confèrence.

Projection du film "Land Grabbing"

SWISSAID Genève au Festival du Film Vert

Vendredi 2 mars au Grand Saconnex, l'Association SWISSAID Genève contribue à la projection du film "Land Grabbing", avec la collaboration du Festival du Film Vert et la Commune du Grand-Saconnex.

Le mois de mars est marqué par l'un des premiers festivals de film de l'année: le Festival du Film Vert. Une occasion unique de découvrir des films engagés dans toutes les régions de Suisse.

A cette occasion, l'Association SWISSAID Genève soutient une projection en collaboration avec la Commune du Grand-Saconnex. Le film "Land Grabbing", de Kurt Langbein, sera présenté vendredi 2 mars dans la salle communale du Grand-Saconnex. Ce documentaire passionnant explore de l'intérieur le monde des investisseurs agroalimentaires mondiaux, ainsi que le rôle des politiques européennes dans ce domaine. L'accaparement des terres n'est pas un phénomène qui ne se passe qu'en Asie ou en Afrique ; cette pratique existe aussi en Europe comme la Roumanie par exemple, grenier de l'Europe.

Programme

19h30 – ouverture des portes et accueil du public

20h00 – diffusion du film

21h30 – débat

22h00 – verrée

Infos pratiques

Lieu: salle communale des Délices, route de Colovrex 18

Entrée gratuite, apéro offert

Global

Stop Land Grabbing - Land to the tillers! - Global day of peasant struggle (EN, ES, FR)

La Via Campesina calls on all of its members and allies, fisher-folk movements, agricultural workers organizations, students and environmental groups, women organizations and social justice movements to organize actions around the world on April 17 in order to display massive popular resistance to land grabbing and highlight the struggle against corporate control over land and natural resources.

Webinar: Community-investor negotiation guides

Free webinar on how basic legal support can help communities defend themselves against outright land grabs, negotiate equitable terms if they do choose to welcome investments, and seek enforcement if those terms are violated.

Gothenburg, Sweden

PRAI - will they make a difference to people on the ground?

This open seminar will facilitate an open discussion on the feasibility of the international Principles for Responsiblle Agricultural Investments (RAI) based on case study research on land investments in Ethiopia , conducted by Kassa T. Alemu and the recently launched Swedish FAO Committee discussion paper “Responsible agricultural investment – how to make principles and guidelines effective”, authored by Kjell Havnevik. The topic is highly relevant as the final negotiations of the RAI principles takes place in the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in May.

Guinée

Caravane ouest-africaine sur le droit à la terre et l’eau

La Convergence globale des luttes pour la terre et l’eau (CGLTE-TOGO), annonce une caravane qu’elle organisera du 10 au 30 novembre prochain dans plusieurs pays de l’Afrique de l’ouest. La caravane sera consacrée à sensibiliser et plaider autour du droit à la terre et l’eau dans les communautés rurales, ainsi qu’aux questions du changement climatique.

Hamburg

International workshop on large-scale agricultural investments

The GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies organises an international conference on large-scale agricultural investments on 11 May 2012 in Hamburg, Germany.

Interlaken

Scaling-up strategies to secure community land and resource rights

This international conference will bring together a wide diversity of stakeholders — governments, local communities, Indigenous Peoples’ organizations, private investors, food and resource companies, and conservation organizations — that have a direct, common, and urgent interest in clarifying and securing the ownership of these lands and resources.

Istanbul

Confronting corporate control over land and productive resources: Securing our rights and strengthening our movements

Rural women's rights to access and control over land and resources are hampered by aggressive corporate control and gender disparities. The session is an opportunity for sharing of struggles, lessons and key strategies from women's movements who resisted corporate control and asserted their rights to their land, resources and livelihood.

Ithaca, New York

Global land grabbing II

The second international academic workshop on ‘Global Land Grabbing’ will be held on 17-19 October 2012 at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA. This event is presented by the Land Deal Politics Initiative (LDPI) and the Cornell Department of Development Sociology. Among the confirmed keynote speakers is the new Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Brazilian academic, José Graziano da Silva.